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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt” podcast for The Washington Times, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” and “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall.” Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com. 

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Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, March 9, 2020. Owning Tesla stock in 2022 has been anything but a smooth ride for investors. Shares in the electric vehicle maker are down nearly 70% since the start of the year, on pace to finish in the bottom five biggest decliners among S&P 500 stocks. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Science roars back to Twitter life

Elon Musk, in a tweet, wrote: "New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science." Finally. Real science -- not the Anthony Fauci brand, but real, actual, genuine science -- is making a comeback. Published December 29, 2022

Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, April 23, 2021. Seated from left are Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Standing from left are Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

SCOTUS Title 42 stay is rock and hard place for Constitution

The U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 5-4, granted a request from 19 states to keep in place for the time being Title 42, a COVID-19 era policy to speedily turn back migrants at the border. That's good for border control. That's bad for sticklers of constitutional principle. Published December 28, 2022

FILE - A view of the security around the Vice President's residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, Jan. 17, 2021. Local organizers in Washington say three buses of recent migrant families arrived from Texas near the home of Vice President Kamala Harris in record-setting cold on Christmas Eve. Texas authorities have not confirmed their involvement. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Kamala Harris and her Christmas coal bag of migrants

Democrats are in an uproar after Gov. Greg Abbott sent 130 migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris's home in Washington, D.C., on Christmas Eve, saying the Texas GOPer is "worthless," a "POS," and so forth and so on and so forth. Harris likes her figgy pudding in peace, it seems. Published December 26, 2022

In this undated photo, provided by NY Governor's Press Office on Saturday March 27, 2021, is the new "Excelsior Pass" app, a digital pass that people can download to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test. Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunization status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop and dine have become the latest flash point in America’s perpetual political wars, with Republicans portraying them as a heavy-handed intrusion into personal freedom and private health choices. (NY Governor's Press Office via AP, File)

Social credits, digital passports and other coming totalitarian evils

China's social credit system where individuals cannot move about freely without showing their green, government-approved checkmarks will come to America's lands on the wings of fear, on the hope for safety and security, on the promises of government to provide safety and security. Published December 16, 2022

Elon Musk arrives at the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, July 13, 2021. According to a filing posted late Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk sold another $3.58 billion worth of Tesla stock during the week, but it wasn’t clear where the proceeds were being spent. Musk has sold nearly $23 billion worth of Tesla stock since April, with much of the money likely going to help fund his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ** FILE **

Elon Musk better get lots of armed guards

Elon Musk better get some good armed security, but fast. When leftists get angry, things get broken -- things like store windows, private properties, police vehicles, people's bones. Published December 16, 2022

A man walks in front of the Bank of England, at the financial district in London, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) ** FILE **

Digital currency’s beastly mark is coming on fast

Make way for the brave new world of digital currency, where governments can track citizens' expenditures, movements and activities, as well as control individuals' access to their own money. Published December 13, 2022

First lady Jill Biden, standing with, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, speaks during the opening remarks of a virtual White House town hall in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022, on getting an updated COVID-19 vaccine this holiday season, especially for Americans ages 50 and older. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Elon Musk: ‘My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci’

Twitter CEO Elon Musk went there. In a tweet, he wrote, "My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci." And Twitter quickly made the tweet go viral. Predictably, leftists went nuts. Published December 12, 2022

The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device on April 25, 2022, in San Diego. Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter when billionaire Elon Musk took over are suing the company in federal court, claiming that last month's abrupt mass layoffs disproportionately affected female employees. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Twitter shadow banning — wink, wink — a real thing after all

The latest in a string of intriguing files released by Twitter's Elon Musk via two journalists shows that "shadow banning" was real, it was targeted and it was frequent, and that conservatives were the ones normally caught in the crossfire. Well, well, well. Sunshine shines at last Published December 9, 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., center left, and other members of Congress, signs the H.R. 8404, the Respect For Marriage Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Homosexuality is still a sin

The courts, Congress, the LGBTQ community, politicians and activists from all walks of life can call same-sex marriage a legal thing, an acceptable thing, a real thing. But God in the Bible still calls homosexuality a sin. And that's what it remains. Published December 8, 2022

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks at a news conference during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Great Reset coming fast and furious for the farmers, for food

Thousands of farmers in the Netherlands are facing a government mandate to close their farms or, come next year, lose their farms -- why? This is the latest globalist takeover of individual rights using environmentalism as the reason. Published December 8, 2022

FILE - Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany on March 22, 2022. (Patrick Pleul/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Elon Musk, the great Twitter Disruptor-In-Chief

Elon Musk, in just a few short weeks as chief of Twitter, has cleared house of key officials who've been outed for shutting down voices on the platform that countered the leftist view. He's doing for Twitter what Donald Trump did for America vs. the deep state. Published December 7, 2022

FILE - Syringes and colorful bandages are prepared as children from local schools prepare to get COVID-19 vaccines in Pittsfield, Mass., on Monday Dec. 13, 2021. A review by federal health officials finds that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine appears safe and effective for children under 5, the only group not currently eligible for vaccination. The review issued Sunday, June 12, 2022, by the Food and Drug Administration is a key step toward a decision on vaccinations for babies, toddlers and preschoolers, perhaps as soon as June 21. (Ben Garver/The Berkshire Eagle via AP, File)

Pfizer, BioNTech now siccing experimental COVID shots on babies

Pfizer asked the FDA -- again, under an emergency use authorization -- to OK a new COVID-19-tied experimental shot, err, oops, vaccine for, get this, little kids, ages 6 months through 4 years old. Get 'em while they're young! That's the slogan of street dealers, too. Published December 5, 2022

Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 9, 2020, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Democrats using anti-Semitism as political bullet

The White House just announced it will be hosting an event this week for Jewish leaders to gather and discuss recent acts and rhetoric of anti-Semitic nature. That's a shrouded way of announcing the next leftist tactic to target and take down Donald Trump. Published December 5, 2022

Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, participates in a panel during the One Planet Summit in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

BlackRock gets a much-needed face slap

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rocked headlines with an announced intent to pull $2 billion of investments with BlackRock over the firm's Environment, Social and Governance, or ESG, standards. The woke firm run by woke CEO Larry Fink is finally facing some much-needed fire. Published December 2, 2022

Germany's Dominik Schwaiger races during a men's World Cup downhill training run Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)

World Cup? China Cup is more like it

The 22nd FIFA World Cup has a total of 16 official sponsors and partners -- and six of them are Chinese companies. This maybe isn't so much a World Cup as it is a China Cup. Published December 1, 2022

Production personnel perform a visual inspection of filled vaccine vials inside the Incepta plant on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh Saturday Feb. 13, 2021. In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh's largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. Yet the factory is operating at just a quarter of its capacity. It is one of three factories that The Associated Press found on three continents whose owners say they could start producing hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccines on short notice if only they had the blueprints and technical know-how. (AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

Radicals seek to slice carbon footprint of surgeries

It's not enough that radical environmentalists have gone after planes, trains, automobiles, the military and meat. Now they're entering hospital operating rooms, calling out the places where the sickly go to heal and be healed as cesspools of pollution. Published December 1, 2022

A Disney cast member displays a Mickey Mouse pin on his shirt at The Center, an LGBTQ support organization, while participating in an employee walkout of Walt Disney World, Tuesday, March 22, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack) ** FILE **

Leftists’ disgusting lust for pedophilia

Leftists, in all their wicked, evil, ungodly and psychologically malfunctioned glory, will continue to push the barriers and norms until the point pedophilia is regarded as just another fun sexual preference. It's a fight the righteous can never quit. Published December 1, 2022

Workers in protective suits stand guard at a barricade as others prepare for their duties in a locked down neighborhood as part of COVID-19 controls in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. China is expanding lockdowns, including in a central city where factory workers clashed this week with police, as its number of COVID-19 cases hit a daily record. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China’s COVID-19 lockdowns are America’s warning

Protests have erupted in China over President Xi Jinping's zero-tolerance COVID-19 policies. Take note, America. From the mouths of America's own lockdown-loving elites -- a warning: As China is, so could the United States go. Lockdowns on freedoms could certainly reoccur here. Published November 29, 2022